Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"

[Jiffex]

Lol, in other news, space octopi are threatening to conquer Earth on the same day. This isn't going to happen.

I think you need to read this.

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[newdarkcloud]

But the internet is just a series of tubes according to my politicians. How could you possibly shut all of those down?

Seriously: I really think that's a bad idea. You're hearts in the right place, but this could backfire in a huge way.

 

[BaronIveagh]

According to Anonymous' twitter, as has been posted before, this is a hoax.

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

so are anonymous now the mysterons or something?

 

[barbzilla]

Well lets say they do manage to kill the DNS servers. Don't worry, all of your online games will still function perfectly as they do not utilize the DNS servers, they route via IP addresses to the servers in question (with a few exceptions). As for shutting down the entire internet, they already said they will be killing the primary DNS servers, so switch out to OpenDNS for a while (or just keep it, I did and I love it. No more MSFT DNS server errors).

 

[EHKOS]

my god, we'll have to resort to ip addresses

actually i don't really know how this thing works anyway

Actually that won't work either, at least, it doesn't for me. Comcast has a bad habit of letting their DNS server go down sometimes and even I.P. addresses don't work.

OT: I doubt this will happen. Anon doesn't have enough firepower to take down all thirteen anyway.

 

[wooty]

Doing this on Saturday? I'll be out anyway.

Go for it, itll be fun to see the fallout afterwards. If the threats legitimate in the first place.

 

[legendp]

Come on now, Anonymous, that's just silly. Everyone knows that if you want to shut down the internet you'd have to fetch it down from Big Ben first. They're either going to need security clearance or a few dozen ladders.

are you quoting the IT Crownd or is it just coincidence. As for anonymus shutting down the internet, I highly doubt it. And from my understanding of it things like Xbox live, PSN, any online game, probaly WOW, would all remian operational becuase (as far as I know) they don't use HTTP, and those are large communities that would quickly fix or find a work around (like IP adresse) to these problems, but I am probably wrong considering my understanding on how the internet works is pretty poor. Not that it matters because the chance of this happening is slim to none, sorta of like the chance of any of you reading this.

 

[Versuvius]

People still think Anon is an organisation, not just a tagline people can pick up and say stupid shit. It's a double edged sword. On one hand, 4chan spawns Chanology and that was hilarious, on the other, idiots do this.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

I want to see this happen...

No, I don't want the internet to go down...
No, I don't support Anonymous in this action (for once)...
...but it would sure be cool if they managed to do it!

 

[Howlstone]

Why do this on a Saturday when everything is closed anyways. Wouldn't it make more sense to do this on a Monday?

 

[Quentin Lyninger]

You all r the idiots who cares if the internet goes down for a while you all are so stupid you don't realize that they are trying to take our rights away they already tried to take our guns away if you were smart you would realize once one right gets taken away they start to take more and more. There is a reason why terrorists attack America and that is they see the government for who they are . So they will attack civilians thinking it will affect the gov. But they don't care about us all they care about is oil money and of course control. So we should all be thanking anonymous for helping to get people to repose our rights are being taken away so if you want to end up like china then your the idiots.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Does Anon realize that the government could very feasibly just leave the internet down, blame Anon for killing the net, and then slip in some spying code or something while it's down, so that when the government "heroically" restores the internet, we will all be spied on or something?

*/tinfoil hat*

Honestly, Anon...this is just stupid.

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

Ah, I remember when they said they'd "destroy" Facebook, wipe it from the face of the internet on Guy Fawkes night a while back... yeah, didn't happen.

Not too worried really.

 

[WraithTDK]

Has it occurred to anyone else that anonymous has no Hierarchy, and thus no one is really qualified to speak for them as a group? That perhaps this is just some guy butt-hurt about Occupy not being in the news anymore?

Anonymous isn't going to target the internet to punish the elites. The net is where they live. This wouldn't be shitting in their own back yard, this would be shitting in the middle of their living room.

 

[Epona]

So let me get this straight.

Anonymous have been saying that the internet represents their ideals like freedom of speech and whatnot, and this is also the same group that (along with many other groups and websites) opposed SOPA and PIPA because the bills could potentially destroy the internet.

And now they are going to do the one thing that they have protested against?

You see, this is what I'm talking about. Anonymous have degraded themselves so much because of stupid things like this. They don't care about the people anymore, and quite frankly, I'm not so sure they ever have cared.

Anonymous, please. Stop, just stop. The people have had enough. You just don't represent the people anymore and you're nothing but a complete and utter joke.

Sorry for this rant, but they are just getting on my nerves now.

Note: I'm aware they have said that they are not going to "destroy" or "kill" the internet, but that still doesn't change my opinion of them.

I am sure you never supported anonymous so why the rant about how they NOW doing things you don't approve of?

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Jesus Christ guys! Look, I hate SOPA too, but that's no reason to ruin the internet for everyone else!

 

[Uber Waddles]

Anon logic here

-Shut down internet - the primary source of fighting such corruption, which ended up getting SOPA and PIPA killeed.

-Shut down the primary source of entertainment for most of the people you claim to be working for, as well as screw over students and small businesses for the sake of screwing over a few large businesses

-Paint Anon with cyberterrorist/criminal connections, giving the general masses a reason to demand a formal investigation/accept censorship - the kind Anon is fighting against

-Piss off the 99% just to maybe piss off the 1%
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Forgive me, but if the mafia is going to kill your wife, you don't kill the dons wife and leave a card saying "We cool?".

What they are planning to do isn't going to help their cause, its going to paint them as a serious threat and probably pave the way for legistlation that allows for censorship. Its just stupid

 

[Aprilgold]

I am seriously doubting the authenticity of this threat. Seeing as how ANYONE can claim to be anonymous, it doesn't mean the entire collective is for shutting THEMSELVES down. Why in the hell would you attempt to shut down the collective's ability to communicate with one another? How would they know when Operation Blackout is over if there is no set date?

Not only that, but anonymous usually has a habit of claiming credit for an attack *after they've already done it.*

Its also would be highly hypocritical of them to do this since the point of Anonym...

So let me get this straight.
Anonymous have been saying that the internet represents their ideals like freedom of speech and whatnot, and this is also the same group that (along with many other groups and websites) opposed SOPA and PIPA because the bills could potentially destroy the internet.

And now they are going to do the one thing that they have protested against?

Thank you for saying what I was going to say about them being hypocritical, but you have to remember that Anonymous is not run it is independent people trying to uphold their ideals through the means of hacking, but of course everyone forgets this and instantly jumps to saying that Anonymous is bad, which is incorrect. Anonymous is a idea that people call themselves by to try and do good things.

People still think Anon is an organisation, not just a tagline people can pick up and say stupid shit. It's a double edged sword. On one hand, 4chan spawns Chanology and that was hilarious, on the other, idiots do this.

Thank you for pointing this out, apparently people don't realize this despite their main slogan.

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Doubt it will do much.

 

[Rastien]

my god, we'll have to resort to ip addresses

actually i don't really know how this thing works anyway

Thats pretty much it, if it does work just use the ip in the browser for the website oppose to the domain name. its gonna be abit of a ball ache for sure though